Y888099 wrote:Tell me more about it. Costs? How fast? Where Can I buy one?

Here in the Czech Republic any respectable computer hardware chain will have them in stock for prompt delivery.The cheaper ones go for ~115 euro and the most expensive ~350-400. They differ in CPU, RAM and storage.

There are many reviews on the Internet. I'm considering buying one to carry around for a few specific things.

But it's more expensive than my Orange Box. And I prefer to deal with a motherboard with PCI slots, lan, and pATA/sATA/SCSI hard drives. Also a Pentium4 @ 3.4GHz is much more faster (than Atom x5-Z @ 1.6Ghz) for things like gNAT and ghdl.

Briefly, with one hundred euro of budget, the best I can do is still the Orange Box

My plan for the G5 is to case-mod it to accommodate one internally (with internal power and self-contained networking), likely connected over VNC or something and using the G5 to proxy its network connections, since the G5 is probably less likely to be attacked

That sounds smart Classic. I bet Bruce probably will continue to be relatively viable for daily use into 2020 or later so you are investing relatively smart. I do wish Apple would have kept the G5 up to date at least in Snow Leopard since for me that was the Pinnacle of OS X. If I had to use OS X again that would be the version I would like to use the most.

ClassicHasClass wrote:My plan for the G5 is to case-mod it to accommodate one internally (with internal power and self-contained networking), likely connected over VNC or something and using the G5 to proxy its network connections, since the G5 is probably less likely to be attacked

Can't you get one of the PCIe USB cards that have one internal USB port?That would eliminate the need of modding the case. Or, I assume, you have all your slots occupied?

ClassicHasClass wrote:since the G5 is probably less likely to be attacked

I don't get your rationale. Why should be probably less likely to be attacked?

I assume because Power/64bit is less used than x86, therefore less vulnerabilities around.

Well, ok, but for me It doesn't matter the architecture, it matters which profile has been used under the hood! The hardened profile (aka Secure Linux) is safer against maliciously for attacks because it comes with a strong set of patches for the kernel, directives for the C compiler, for libc and glibc, and for the whole userland.